On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:09:55AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Sure, "you don't need to know the date, as you are using sid and did > apt-get update, you are assured it's the latest version". Well, one > doesn't need the maintainer field either etc.
Here is a good reason for wanting to know the date: Caches like apt-proxy combined with out-of-date debian mirrors sometimes work against you and give apt-get (and cache) a really old Packages.gz file, that contains obsolete Packages. It would be nice if there was some automatic way of determining that the Packages.gz/Sources.gz files downloaded are in fact up-to-date, without manually inspecting them. (I am just worried that one day I will do a lot of packporting from unstable to stable and suddenly realize all my backports were obsolete before I even created them...). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
